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Totality may not be quite as dark as nighttime, but the difference between 99% obscuration and 100% is still night and day.

Find time this season to set aside your telescope and seek the night sky's ghostly glows.

Try this solar-eclipse experiment as you're watching the Moon cover up the Sun.

Models of the NASA's DART impact reshaping the asteroid moon Dimorphos show that this object is "rubble all the way down."

The Japanese space agency has reestablished contact with its SLIM lunar lander prior to sunset, enabling mission science to continue.

The James Webb Space Telescope has found that distant dwarf planets might be methane factories.

La eclíptica, dicho de manera simple, es el plano de la órbita de la Tierra alrededor del Sol.

Conviértase en un experto en eclipses para familiares y amigos en un par de minutos

The full Moon splits the Sickle, the dawn Moon occults Antares, carnivore constellations stand up in the east, and the zodiacal light is at its evening best.

Odysseus has become the first mission of NASA's Commercial Lunar Payload Services program to soft-land on the Moon.

After decades of debate, James Webb Space Telescope observations provide firm evidence of a neutron star inside the 1987A supernova remnant.

In a new study, astronomers have identified a quasar more luminous and voracious than any found to date.

If you have clouds in your forecast, don't give up! There’s plenty of astronomy to be enjoyed even on overcast nights.

Standard cosmological scenarios might not explain the breadth of a newly discovered cosmic structure.

The Moon waxes from first quarter to full this week, traveling from the Pleiades past the not-quite-twin heads of Gemini to the Sickle of Leo. The Big Dipper and Cassiopeia stand in balance. Venus meets Mars low in the dawn.

New observations of a neutron star in the Milky Way's center shed light on what makes mysterious fast radio bursts.

The southern constellation Carina contains arguably the best nebula in the sky, along with a host of other fascinating stars and clusters.

Results from a brand-new high-energy observatory are rocking the field of cosmology. In particular, a study of more than 5,000 galaxy clusters relieves tension in the standard cosmological model.

The second Commercial Lunar Payload Services mission of 2024 IM-1 Nova-C heads Moonward.

Double stars are wonderful, but triples are terrific! Here are 16 trios to enjoy the next clear night.

One of the best parts about the eclipse coming up on April 8th will be the opportunity to share the joy and amazement with others!